Typophile Shaun Chung created this Rubik’s cube stamp featuring Chinese characters that combine to form verses from a traditional children’s poem. He laser-etched the characters from wood and affixed them to the cube. Shaun writes: Chinese has a long history with the printing. In 105 AD, Cai Lun invented the paper. In 200 AD, the […]
Found in the MAKE Flickr pool: I love these tables made from repurposed bike parts, built by Flickr user Del Cruiser.
Last year, I finally tackled a long-lived goal of making homemade gingerbread houses from scratch with a lot of inspiration and great advice from Sister Diane and her mom, Pam, both gingerbread house making experts. This year, we’re in the process of selling our house and moving so I don’t know if I’ll be able […]
The iFixit crew recently disassembled a fully functional Parrot AR.Drone to see what makes it tick. From the teardown you may notice that the hardware seems pretty accessible. The gear’s just begging for a mod.
For our second project in the Make It Last Build Series, we’re constructing a robotic plant. This week, we’re going to build an extendable stem for our plant from a tape measure, and mount it inside of the flower pot. Combined with the plant brain we built last time, we’re well on our way to […]
The other day, I bumped into these interesting (but sold out) “trading cards” from mysterious and delightful Imaginary Foundation. I immediately did a web search and found a remaining set ($18) at an e-tailer (they only had one deck left). They came today, and they’re really nice. It’s a shame they aren’t selling them anymore. […]
Dirk Vander Kooij is taking 3d printing to a whole new scale with his series of chairs made from recycled fridge plastic.
